| Justifiable Resentments
Do you have a resentment that you refuse to let go of? Is it with someone or something that you have judged as completely wrong; someone or something that you do not have the capacity, the power or the willingness to forgive? This sort of resentment is the launching pad for so many relapses each day and a return to the chaos of active drinking. Why can we not see the destructive power of the next drink beforehand especially when it comes to resentments? Why do we cling to the anger of the moment? Why do we justify our right to hate, our need to be right, when forgiveness would wash the matter away forever? I may be right today, but I am not whole until I let go and let God. Who ultimately pays the price for resentments? I can give you one clue; it is never the someone or the something that the resentment is directed at, never!
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"It is what you learn after you know it all that counts." John Wooden
Excerpts from Original Manuscript of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
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